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  • Atmospheric cold plasma to improve printability of polyethylene terephthalate 
    Sandanuwan, T; Hendeniya, N; Attygalle, D; Amarasinghe, DAS; Weragoda, SC; Samarasekara, AMPB [Conference-Full-text]
    Though paper is still the most common substrate in the printing industry, polymeric substrates are becoming common by the day. Commercially available polymers such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polyvinyl chloride ...
  • Atmospheric pressure plasma treatment as a cost-effective and eco-friendly pre-treatment method to enhance seed perfomance in germination and early seedling growth 
    Hendeniya, N; Sandanuwan, T; Amarasinghe, DAS; Attygalle, D; Weragoda, S; Ranaweera, B; Rathnayake, K; Lalanka, M [Conference-Full-text]
    Novel methods of improving the seed quality have gained a lot of attention recently, cold atmospheric pressure plasma being one of the most promising methods. The effects of cold atmospheric pressure plasma treatment of ...
  • Attention level approximation of a conversation in human-robot vocal interaction using prosodic features of speech 
    Wickramaratne, SD; Jayasekara, AGBP [Conference-Abstract]
    With the widespread use of robots and integration of robots into the daily human life, the communication abilities of the robots are highlighted in order to ensure smooth interaction. Domestic robots with conversation ...
  • Augmented reality for mobile devices to show information of exhibits at a museum 
    Abeysinghe, C; Jayasiri, V; Sandaruwan, K; Wijerathna, B; Pasqual, AA [Conference-Extended-Abstract]
    Augmented Reality (AR) is one of the emerging technologies being used for enhancing user experience in many applications. Specific devices for various tasks are been replaced by Smart Phones making them a unique platform ...
  • Augmented reality in warehouse operations: possibilities and dynamics in Sri Lankan context 
    De Silva, P; Liyanage, HL
    Large number of fields uses augmented reality in order to enhance the efficacy and effectiveness of processes. Similarly, augmented reality is an emerging trend in the supply chain management field. Growth and rapid progress ...
  • Automated management information system for vehicle maintenance and repair workshop 
    Meharuban, M; Tennakoon, HB; Fernando, MSD [Conference-Extended-Abstract]
    In a regular vehicle maintenance and repair workshop, service details, employee details and invoice details are manually maintained in paper and hence prone to human errors. Farther, the customer is required to provide ...
  • Automated optimization and suggestion of libraries and patterns for software architectures 
    Pirapuraj, P; Perara, I [Conference-Abstract]
    It is clear that code reuse is important task in software development and maintenance. The problem in code reuse is, after download all relevant code, we need to identify most relevant code among those. In this paper we ...
  • Automated teleprompter 
    Paris, MMSA; Udayanga, GWGKAN; Weerakoon, WMTCB; Mihiran, KWC [Conference-Extended-Abstract]
    This project is focused on automating the current manual teleprompting system to achieve higher usability. Teleprompting is one of the most widely used techniques in many broadcasting systems. Nowadays, it is handled ...
  • Automated traffic signal controller with remote accessibility 
    Jayasinghe, JAKS; Arachchi, HK [Conference-Full-text]
    Development of the hardware, firmware and control and monitoring software to interface the UNIROAD Traffic Signal Controller (TSC) to Advanced Traffic Control System (ATCS) is described. This system is capable of controlling ...
  • Automated vehicle parking occupancy detection in real-time 
    Padmasiri, H; Madurawe, R; Abeysinghe, C; Meedeniya, D [Conference-Full-text]
    Parking occupancy detection systems help to identify the available parking spaces and direct vehicles efficiently to unoccupied lots by reducing time and energy. This paper presents an approach for the design and ...
  • Automatic assessment and error identification of multi-step answers for matrix questions 
    Thirunavukkarasu, N; Selvarasa, A; Rajendran, N; Yogalingam, C; Ranathunga, S; Dias, G [Conference-Extended-Abstract]
    This paper presents an automatic assessment and error identification system for student answers with matrix expressions, and which may have multiple steps. Teacher’s intervention is needed only during the question set-up ...
  • Automatic assessment of student answers for geometric theorem proving questions 
    Mendis, C; Lahiru, D; Pamudika, N; Madushanka, S; Ranathunga, S; Dias, G [Conference-Abstract]
    In this paper, we present a system to automatically assess multi-step answers for geometric theorem proving questions in high school Mathematics. The system is capable of allocating partial marks for steps considering a ...
  • An automatic classifier for exam questions with wordnet and cosine similarity 
    Jayakodi, K; Bandara, M; Meedeniya, D [Conference-Full-text]
    The learning objectives, learning activities and assessment are very much interrelated. Assessment helps to evaluate students learning achievement. Poorly designed assessments usually fail to examine the achievement of ...
  • Automatic creation of a word aligned Sinhala-Tamil parallel corpus 
    Mohamed, MZ; Ihalapathirana, A; Hameed, RA; Pathirennehelage, N; Ranathunga, S; Jayasena, S; Dias, G [Conference-Abstract]
    A parallel corpus aligned at both sentence and word level is an important prerequisite in statistical machine translation. However, manual creation of such a parallel corpus is time consuming, and requires experts fluent ...
  • Automatic governor for Tie-line control : a teaching tool 
    De Silva, LUN; Deegala, DDMI; Karunathilake, IMM; kUMARI, PHSSDI; Lucas, JR [Conference-Abstract]
    Power transmission between interconnected systems is a major concern in the present electrical engineering context and is of utmost importance to Electrical Engineering undergraduates. A voltage scaled power system simulator ...
  • Automating incident categorization in a support request system 
    Cooray, TMTM; Ariyaratne, MKA; Perera, MDR [Conference-Extended-Abstract]
    With the expansion of the role of IT, organizations tend to maintain a support request system/ Issue Tracking System (ITS) to handle issues. ITSs are designed to streamline the process of customer support and keep a track ...
  • The automation of intelligent scheduling for tournaments 
    Perera, WAJD; Dassanayake, VPC [Conference-Extended-Abstract]
    Currently, the process of scheduling a tournament is hampered to a great extent because it is done manually. This leads to the inefficient use of resources (the most important of which is time) in the development of a ...
  • Autonomous cloud robotic system for smart agriculture 
    Dharmasena, T; de Silva, R; Abhayasingha, N; Abeygunawardhanaz, P [Conference-Abstract]
    Agriculture sector occupies 25.9% of the world employment. The demand for food production is rapidly increasing with the increase of world population. Developing the existing agricultural infrastructure by incorporating ...
  • Autonomous transmission line inspection and fault detection system 
    Ranaweera, PS; Alahakoon, DC; Prabhashwara, KSS; Lakmal, AMGVI [Conference-Full-text]
    Power transmission network is the most critical part of a power system due to its connectivity with generation and distribution stations. Though it is a riskier employment to carry out the routine inspections of the ...
  • AxiCo2: concurrency coordination runtime on top of -e Axis2 
    Bandara, L; Mudannayaka, S; Gunawardena, V; Weerasooriya, C; Perera, S [Conference-Extended-Abstract]
    AxiCo2 is an Application Programming Interface designed to simplify the implementation of concurrency in local environment as well as in the invocation of web services. AxiCo2 thereby reduces many inherent difficulties ...